THEY SERVE THE PUBLIC...:

Patrick gets unions huffing and puffing (Scot Lehigh, March 10, 2010, Boston Globe)

LABOR LEADERS are in a lather. So deep runs their indignation that Governor Patrick canceled an appearance at a recent AFL-CIO conference because attendees were ready to snub their invited guest and join police officers protesting outside while he spoke.

Patrick should be “one and done,’’ Thomas Nee, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, thundered at that protest, urging union members to render the Democratic incumbent a single-term governor.

“I understand all the things that are going on in the world of economics, but you can’t go rewriting collective bargaining agreements and history,’’ Nee told me.

...not vice versa.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 10, 2010 6:29 AM